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<p style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><a href="http://catalog.bcpl.lib.md.us/polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&amp;type=Keyword&amp;term=Zourkova%20Wildalone&amp;by=KW&amp;sort=MP&amp;limit=TOM=*&amp;query=&amp;page=0" target="_blank" title="Learn more about this title (opens in new window.)"><img alt="Cover art for Wildalone" class="blog-image-border" src="http://syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062328021/MC.GIF&amp;client=baltctypublib&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=877912386" style="width: 131px; height: 200px; margin: 5px; float: left;" title="Learn more about this title (opens in new window.)" /></a>Krassi Zourkova&rsquo;s debut novel <a href="http://catalog.bcpl.lib.md.us/polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&amp;type=Keyword&amp;term=Zourkova%20wildalone&amp;by=KW&amp;sort=MP&amp;limit=TOM=*&amp;query=&amp;page=0" target="_blank" title="Learn more about this title (opens in new window.)"><strong>Wildalone</strong></a> will leave readers eagerly awaiting her next literary venture. A novel filled with Greek mythology, Bulgarian legends and romance, <strong>Wildalone</strong> is a stunning debut. Thea Slavin, a Bulgarian student, has just begun her freshman year at Princeton University. She immediately wows the Princeton community with her piano skills, giving a Chopin concert shortly after she arrives at school. As Thea is thrust into the spotlight, she must balance her musical ambitions with her school work, campus job, social life, mysterious family history and enigmatic love interest.</p>
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<p style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Before Thea begins her education at Princeton, she finds out that she had a much older sister, Elza, who attended Princeton years before and mysteriously died there. This doesn&rsquo;t stop Thea from attending the illustrious school. Rather, she decides to investigate her sister&rsquo;s death in between classes, concerts and dates. Meanwhile, she becomes enraptured with Rhys, an older, captivating man who reveals little about himself, keeping Thea in the dark throughout much of the book. Zourkova weaves in stories from Greek mythology and Bulgarian legends, and as the reader reaches the climax of the novel, the story ties in with the legends seamlessly.</p>
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<p style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><strong>Wildalone </strong>is a bewitching story that leaves readers enraptured with Thea, as well as the more minor characters. Fans of Deborah Harkness&rsquo;s <a href="http://catalog.bcpl.lib.md.us/polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&amp;type=Keyword&amp;term=Deborah%20Harkness%20All%20Souls&amp;by=KW&amp;sort=PD&amp;limit=TOM=*&amp;query=&amp;page=0" target="_blank" title="Learn more about this series (opens in new window.)"><strong>All Souls Trilogy</strong></a> series will enjoy this new novel and debut author. Reader beware, <strong>Wildalone</strong> ends on a cliffhanger!</p>
<div class="taxonomy-images"><a href="/category/between-the-covers-blogger/laura" class="taxonomy-image-links"><img src="http://www.bcpl.net/sites/default/files/category_pictures/find-materials-blog-laura-signature.png" alt="Laura" title="Laura" width="224" height="75" class="taxonomy-image-term-287 taxonomy-image-vid-7" /></a></div>http://www.bcpl.info/between-the-covers/bewitching-legends#commentsAdultFictionMythologyParanormalLauraWed, 04 Mar 2015 12:00:00 +0000Between the Covers23594 at http://www.bcpl.infoA Cold Day in Hadeshttp://www.bcpl.info/between-the-covers/cold-day-hades
<p style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><a href="http://catalog.bcpl.lib.md.us/polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&amp;type=Keyword&amp;term=skin game butcher&amp;by=KW&amp;sort=RELEVANCE&amp;limit=TOM=*&amp;query=&amp;page=0" target="_blank"><img alt="Skin Game" src="http://syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780451464392/MC.GIF&amp;client=baltctypublib&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=867001158" style="width: 132px; height: 200px; margin: 5px; float: left;" title="Click image to search for this title in our catalog." /></a>Everything changed for Harry Dresden, Chicago&#39;s only professional wizard, when he sold his services to Mab, Queen of the Fairies, to save his daughter. He&#39;s been not quite dead, trapped in Fairy politics and sent on a wide variety of suicide missions. That was the easy part. Nicodemus, Knight of the Blackened Denarius and one of the cruelest enemies Dresden has ever faced is back in town, planning a major heist. And Harry&#39;s stuck working for him.</p>
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<p style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;">By turns <a href="http://catalog.bcpl.lib.md.us/polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&amp;type=Keyword&amp;term=skin%20game%20butcher&amp;by=KW&amp;sort=RELEVANCE&amp;limit=TOM=*&amp;query=&amp;page=0" target="_blank"><strong>Skin Game</strong></a> by Jim Butcher is a ripping heist novel, a hilariously goofy urban fantasy, with enough touching moments to give real weight. Butcher has won the ability to write gripping, fun and magical crime novels, and he&#39;s fought for that ability in this very series. It&#39;s not recommended to start with <strong>Skin Game</strong> if you&#39;re going to read the Dresden Files series because too much of the book is dependent on things that have come before. I don&#39;t recommend beginning at the first book either, because Butcher didn&#39;t really find his footing until the third. Start with the third book, <a href="http://catalog.bcpl.lib.md.us/polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&amp;type=Keyword&amp;term=grave%20peril%20butcher&amp;by=KW&amp;sort=RELEVANCE&amp;limit=TOM=*&amp;query=&amp;page=0" target="_blank"><strong>Grave Peril</strong></a>, because the Dresden Files are a journey. Characters grow, wrestle with themselves, face up to things they don&#39;t want to deal with. There&#39;s a whole lot Dresden doesn&#39;t want to deal with, from dragging his friends into danger to stronger and stronger deals with dangerous and inhuman powers. Life has a tendency to get a whole lot bigger than the people living in the Dresdenverse.</p>
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If this were a movie, it would be a summer tent pole, a certified blockbuster. It has huge, explosive action, romance, comedy, true love, and cute animals. There are double and triple crosses and rivalries that zoom along. It would be better than anything you&#39;re going to see in the theater this year. But it gets even better if you haven&#39;t read the rest of the Dresden Files, because now you have an entire book series that&#39;s better than anything you&#39;re going to see in the theater, and it&#39;s still building up to even bigger things.</p>
<div class="taxonomy-images"><a href="/category/between-the-covers-blogger/matt" class="taxonomy-image-links"><img src="http://www.bcpl.info/sites/default/files/category_pictures/find-materials-blog-matt-signature.png" alt="Matt" title="Matt" width="224" height="75" class="taxonomy-image-term-301 taxonomy-image-vid-7" /></a></div>http://www.bcpl.info/between-the-covers/cold-day-hades#commentsAdultFantasyFictionHorrorMythologyParanormalRomanceThrillerMattFri, 29 Aug 2014 12:00:00 +0000Between the Covers19014 at http://www.bcpl.infoAnd Justice for Allhttp://www.bcpl.info/between-the-covers/and-justice-all
<p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px"><a href="http://catalog.bcpl.lib.md.us/polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&amp;type=Keyword&amp;term=round house erdrich&amp;by=KW&amp;sort=PD&amp;limit=TOM=*&amp;query=&amp;page=0" target="_blank"><img alt="The Round House" src="http://syndetics.com/hw7.pl?isbn=9780062065247/MC.GIF&amp;client=baltctypublib&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=" style="border-bottom: 0px solid; border-left: 0px solid; margin: 5px; width: 130px; float: left; height: 200px; border-top: 0px solid; border-right: 0px solid" /></a>Award-winning author and owner of the Birchbark Books store in Minnesota, Louise Erdrich is of both European and Native American descent. Her Ojibwe heritage is an integral part of her latest novel, <a href="http://catalog.bcpl.lib.md.us/polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&amp;type=Keyword&amp;term=round%20house%20erdrich&amp;by=KW&amp;sort=PD&amp;limit=TOM=*&amp;query=&amp;page=0" target="_blank"><strong>The Round House</strong></a>, which revolves around a crime committed against a woman of the Chippewa tribe.</p>
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<p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px">Narrated by thirteen-year-old Joe, the story opens with a brutal attack on Joe&rsquo;s mother Geraldine, a tribal enrollment specialist. Deeply traumatized and unable to cope, Geraldine withdraws to her bedroom, stymieing the police investigation. Joe&rsquo;s father, a tribal lawyer, is convinced the violence was not random and enlists Joe&rsquo;s help in reviewing pertinent legal cases which he believes will lead them to the perpetrator. With the help of friends and extended family, Joe uncovers evidence pointing to Linden Lark, a white man with a family history of checkered relations with the Chippewa. Unfortunately, while Geraldine knows the assault took place near the Round House, the reservation&rsquo;s spiritual center, she cannot pinpoint the exact location and the area includes both tribal lands and state-owned property. With no clear jurisdiction, the case cannot be prosecuted and Lark is freed.</p>
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<p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px">Erdrich braids together elements of native culture and mythology, Southern Gothic style, and the commonality of the male adolescent experience, all of which drive Joe&rsquo;s decisions. &nbsp;The devastating impact, both past and present, of alcohol on Indian families is unmistakable. Relations between the tribal members and the white community are repeatedly shown as tenuous, the truce uneasy.&nbsp;</p>
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<p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px"><strong>The Round House</strong> is a multi-faceted jewel.&nbsp; It is a coming-of-age story, a view of contemporary Native American reservation life, and a thriller turning on legal niceties while relentlessly moving to an inevitable conclusion. Erdrich&rsquo;s afterword includes information about organizations working to correct the difficulties of prosecuting reservation crimes, especially sexual assault against Native women.&nbsp;</p>
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<div class="taxonomy-images"><a href="/category/between-the-covers-blogger/lori" class="taxonomy-image-links"><img src="http://www.bcpl.net/sites/default/files/category_pictures/find-materials-blog-lori-signature.png" alt="Lori" title="Lori" width="224" height="75" class="taxonomy-image-term-162 taxonomy-image-vid-7" /></a></div>AdultFictionLegalMysteryMythologyLoriMon, 22 Oct 2012 12:45:00 +0000Between the Covers6679 at http://www.bcpl.info